The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

wari, Sawyer County, the men found a
| tree which contained two full-grown bears
and three small ones.
The 7. NJ c. A. of Eau Claire will at
once begin the erection of finely
equipped gymnasium.
The two State insane hospitals which
have been overcrowded are being relieved
by new transfers to the county asylums.
The Wisconsin Dairyman's Association
held its annual session at Sparta recently.
II. c. Adams was elected President; d. ".
Curtis, Secretary, ana Ii h. LOOMS,
Treasurer. H. z. Fish, of Richlaud Cen
ter, was awarded the first premiums for
creamery, dairy and granular butter.
The dress of little girl of Galesvilie,
Trempealeau County, caught fire recently
! from lantern which she was carrying,
| and she was badly burned.
A parrot belonging to Mrs. Rufus Thorn
rs, of Berlin, Green Lake County, died
few days ago. 1t was brought from Cen
trail America Ill 1916.
The lumber trade is enjoying boom at
La Crosse.
A tel of fifty rooms is to be built at
Waukesha on the site of the old Mansion
House. 1t will be kept open the year round,
and will be ready for occupation in Jun5.
Gray wolves have been committing dep
relations in farmers poultry yards near
! Beloit. A big Que was caught in a trap the
other day.
Louis Lodeaux the proprietor of a
clearinghouse at Hurley, dropped dead
few days ago.
Charles Klose, IF Schlesingerville,
Washington County aged seventy years,
during a quarrel with his wife few days
ago took a shot-gm and fired killing her
instantly. Hearing naighbOrs approach
| ing he blew out his brains falling dead as
the party erterel the door. Dissipation
and domestic troubles were the cause of
| the ira edy.
The city schools of New Richmond, st.
| CroiX County, with the exception of the
| high school, were closed the other day ON
account Of scarlet fever, which was preva-
lent in the city.
A convention of sheriffs was held at Osh-
kosh the other day to form an organization
for securing legislation in their interests,
and adopting methods for assisting each
other in the capture of criminals and other
| things. The following officers were elect
ed: President, Thomas Scott, of Door
| County; Vlce-Presi1ent, W. E. Warren, of
| Fond du Lac; Secretary, George N. Wis
wall, of Walworth; Treasurer, Silas Ward,
of Rock.
Louis Gundlack, twenty-three years old,
was run over by a switch engine at Madi-
son the other night snd instantly killed.
The Underwriters Union for most of the
| Eastern district of Wisconsin has been
changed from Wauprh to Appleton Ed
WIN Hillyer, the manager, resigned, and
| Theodore w. Briggs, CT Appleton, was APP
| pointed in his place.
| An owl got into barn at logging camp
ON Prairie river recently, and during the
night, while the men were trying to catch
it, three of them were badly ciawed about
the face and neck
A train containing five coaches, to run
between Milwaukee and Cnicago, on the
| Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway,
has been fitted up with an anti-fire car
heating apparatus, the Same which is in
use on some Eastern lines for heating cars
by steam from the locomotive.
A society to be known as the Beloit Bust
| ness Mems Association was recently in
corporated AMI formally organized. The
officers are: President, E. j. Adams;
| Vice-Pres; dents w. II Wheeler and John
Foster; Secretary, j. d. Dow; Treasurer,
w. M. Britain.
| w IilIdIu JOucS, Oh Gue JONES hOuSe. OCOu-
omowoc, will this season rebuild the La
Belle House, burned some years ago.
The hired girl of a Marinette family fire.
quently used kerosene to start the kitchen
fire. AS she would not give up the practice
the man of the house filled the can with
water. Breakfast was about two hours
late the next day and the girls excuse was
that she left the woodshed door open and
snow covered all the wood.
Over $780, 600 boxes of cheese were sold liz
Sheboygan County last year.
People in the vicinity of the Northwest
ern railroad depot in Milwaukee were
much amused the other afternoon by the
conduct of an aged couple who were wait
ing for train. The aged pair were billing
| and cooling in a most loving manner. 1t
was discovered that the couple had eloped
| the day before from West Bend, and had
just been married. The old gentleman il
eighty and his bride seventy-fve, and thu
numerous children on each side had unan,
! imously opposed the marriage.
! A large number of vessels are now being
built at ShebOygan for this seasons trade.
! Colonel Reuben May, who in 1877 was the
Greenback candidate for Governor, has
just received back pension amounting to
SC, 400. He was at the head Of the Seventh
kentucky Volunteers during the war
| While Joseph Leiofried, of Potosi g rant
County, was climbing over a beam in a
hay-loft few evenings ago he fell and
! struck his knee upon sharp hay-knife
| and cut deep cash in the joint, so that
/ he would probably be disabled for life.
An enrolment of indians is being made
at Hatley, Marathon County.
| Captain Thoroughbred is the name of
! Salvation Army lass at Janesville.
! Catharine Murray, an inmate of the
/ Grant County insane asylum, died the other
morning from the effects of the smoke she
inhaled during the recent fire at that insti-
| tuition.
General Passenger Agent Carpenter, of
| the st. Paul road, has issued the following
circular to passenger agents: 1.-THE Inter
State Commerce law, which goes into eff
| feet on March 81, 1887, forbids the issue of
| passes or the making of reduced rates to
| other than bona fde railroad employees Tex
cept as noted below; therefore, from this
| date you will not issue nor recommend the
| issue of annual, season, trip or mileage
passes or half-fare permits to any person
on any account who does not come under
the head of railroad employees for any
period beyond March 81, 1887 Nothing in
this act prohibits any common carrier from
| giving reduced rates to ministers of relig-
| ion.n
The Catholic Church at Fairchild, Eau
| Claire County, was, with its contents, de-
| stroyed by fire few nights ago, involving
| loss of 5000. Insurance, 81, 800. The
fire was supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary.
The farmhouse of Alfred Perkins, west
Of Beloit, was totally destroyed b. fire a
few days ago. Loss, s1,1O0; insurance,
$780,
Great alarm was created at Lancaster a
few days ago by flames in the new insane
as ylum, frame structure which cost S23,-
| 600. Ninety-eight patients were safely
| taken out. The damage would not exceed
$5)J.
At Sturgeon Bay few days ago John
Oberg took six thousand pounds Of fish
from his seventy nets.
The recent severe weather ruined nearly
| three-fourths of the surplus potato crop in.
Eau Claire County, which was to have!